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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Why no socket package in the standard ?
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Yannick Duch=EAne wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> =A0 =A01) There exist a =93Windows Services for UNIX=94, alias =93Subsyst=
em for =A0
> UNIX-based Applications=94.
> =A0 =A0 =A0 See http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/library/bb496506(en-us=
).aspx

Which confirms that Windows is not POSIX-compliant out of the box but
requires an add-on.

> =A0 =A02) Linux is not fully POSIX compliant
> =A0 =A0 =A0 See =A0https://www.opengroup.org/platform/single_unix_specifi=
cation/uploads/...
> =A0 =A0 =A0 (and it appears no one would want to pay the average $15000 f=
ee =A0
> required to pass compliance test which would be required anyway)

It is funny that after reading the first paragraph of that document
you should claim that:

> POSIX is not more a standard than PHP or Python are.

Come on.  POSIX started as an IEEE standard and has been an ISO
standard (specifically ISO/IEC 9945) since 1996.  How much more
standard do you want it to be?

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Ludovic Brenta.